Boca Knights

Boca Knights – Steven M. Forman

Advertised as wacky-crime, thriller hailing from Florida —

Then, as sidebar note, “When digital is better…”

The little chapter pieces of art, always repeated at the beginning or end of the chapters? In the digital version? Pink Flamingos. How nice is that.

While the introductory material is set in Boston, the action of the novel quickly graduates to Boca Raton, FL. North of Miami? My Florida geography isn’t very good, but then, most of Florida is all of about 20 feet above sea level.

With that much coastline and good fishing, why would anyone want to play golf?

While the original advertising suggested something along the lines of Hiaasen or Dorsey, the novel — looks like the first of a trilogy — wants to veer into grey areas, with a minimal hat-tip to terse prose and hard-boiled detectives from the days of yore.

Exactly when was “the days of yore?”

In some passages though, that’s what this harkens back to.

Interesting read, made more interesting by the author’s own backstory, adds definable verisimilitude to some passages. Seemed especially evocative of the gritty dock-side, war-zone version of Boston. Not bad for book set in Florida.

The conclusion left me vastly underwhelmed. Just a hook into the next book. Problem being, this was a pulp/paperback digital version, and I couldn’t find the next book in digital format yet.

Boca Knights

For $1.99 digital read, it’s great.

Boca Knights

Boca Knights – Steven M. Forman